All of your chat conversations and emails will be automatically
searched for suspicious content. Nothing remains confidential or
secret. There is no requirement of a court order or an initial
suspicion for searching your messages. It occurs always and
automatically.
If an algorithms classifies the content of a message as suspicious,
your private or intimate photos may be viewed by staff and
contractors of international corporations and police authorities.
Also your private nude photos may be looked at by people not known
to you, in whose hands your photos are not safe.
Flirts and sexting may be read by staff and contractors of
international corporations and police authorities, because text
recognition filters looking for “child grooming” frequently falsely
flag intimate chats.
You can falsely be reported and investigated for allegedly
disseminating child sexual exploitation material. Messaging and chat
control algorithms are known to flag completely legal vacation
photos of children on a beach, for example. According to Swiss
federal police authorities, 80% of all machine-generated reports
turn out to be without merit. Similarly in Ireland only 20% of NCMEC
reports received in 2020 were confirmed as actual “child abuse
material”. 40% of all criminal investigation procedures initiated in
Germany for “child pornography” target minors.
On your next trip overseas, you can expect big problems.
Machine-generated reports on your communications may have been
passed on to other countries, such as the USA, where there is no
data privacy – with incalculable results.
Intelligence services and hackers may be able to spy on your private
chats and emails. The door will be open for anyone with the
technical means to read your messages if secure encryption is
removed in order to be able to screen messages.
This is only the beginning. Once the technology for messaging and
chat control has been established, it becomes very easy to use them
for other purposes. And who guarantees that these incrimination
machines will not be used in the future on our smart phones and
laptops?